ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Beowulf, heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic . The work deals with events of the early 6th century, and, while the date of its composition is uncertain, some scholars believe that it was written in the 8th century.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. It tells the breathtaking story of a struggle between the hero, Beowulf, and a bloodthirsty monster called Grendel.

Detailed explanation-3: -Beowulf. Beowulf is an Old English epic poem which survives in a single precious manuscript.

Detailed explanation-4: -Grendel, fictional character, a monstrous creature defeated by Beowulf in the Old English poem Beowulf (composed between 700 and 750 ce). Descended from the biblical Cain, Grendel is an outcast, doomed to wander the face of the earth.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first monster Beowulf fights is Grendel, the epitome of isolation and social exclusion.